You may have read the recent Strange Horizons editorial in which editor Niall Harrison announces, as part of the magazine’s fund drive, the publication of Samovar, an imprint that will focus on sf in translation. Here’s the announcement: …we’re delighted to announce a partnership with the proposed Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Gather round, everybody! SF in Translation is looking to publish speculative flash fiction on this site, either in English translation or the original language in which it was written. If, for example, you’ve recently translated a piece of French speculative flash fiction and it needs a good home, please send me the original French text
“Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Jan‐Feb 2015) won “Best Novelette” at this year’s Hugo Awards. Congrats to Hao Jingfang and Ken!! (Check out my recent interview with Ken here.)
Check out the StarShipSofa podcast this month for four works of SF in translation: “The Smog Society” by Chen Qiufan, translated from Chinese by Ken Liu and Carmen Yiling Yan “Sense of Wonder 2.0” by Laurent Queyssi, translated from French by Edward Gauvin “White Curtain” by Pavel Amnuel, translated from Russian by Anatoly Belilovsky “Violation
The people behind the French spec fic magazine Angle Mort are expanding their vision to include French works in English with the following goals in mind: “(1) Bolster the ties between French and American science fiction, by launching a new magazine that translates French stories into English. We think that French science fiction is rich from
There’s a LOT of great stuff out this year from Restless Books, Haikasoru, Aqueduct, and more: check it out!
According to the Cadmus Press site, the “Zoran Živković Collection will be available in hardcover, trade paperback, and electronic editions…The first works to be published will be The Five Wonders of the Danube, only available in a limited multi-lingual edition from Zavod (Serbia), and The Papyrus Trilogy, bringing together the cases of Dejan Lucik, star
Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated by David Frye (Restless Books, 160 pages, June 7) “With the playfulness and ingenuity of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science-fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the twentieth annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011. In a distant future
Today, I attended the Science Fiction in Translation Panel at WisCon: the feminist science fiction convention held each year in Madison, Wisconsin (#SFinTranslation, #wc40). Moderator Jaymee Goh and translators S. Qiouyi Lu (Chinese into English) and Arrate Hidalgo (English into Spanish) explored the ins and outs of translating science fiction, discussing their own experiences with
This, my friends, is the ULTIMATE work of speculative fiction in translation. Small Beer to Publish 400-Year-Old SF Novel
